Author Topic: Early conssesesus on Jennifer's Body: Mediocre (Read 2238 times)

Great Rumbler · « **on:** September 11, 2009, 06:55:04 PM »

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jennifers_body/

Quote from: Boxoffice Magazine

It is not nearly as funny or clever as Cody and Karyn Kusama evidently think it is and it telegraphs its intentions too bluntly to be scary.

Quote from: Cinematical

Jennifer's Body substitutes hipster credibility for emotional currency, confuses pop-psychology insight with substantive social commentary, and measures terror on a scale that ranges from the word boo to a dead spider.

Quote from: Hollywood Reporter

An unoriginal and mostly unscary horror-comedy from, surprisingly, the pen of Diablo Cody.

Quote from: Variety

While not exactly lifeless, Jennifer's Body sure could be fresher.

Quote from: Screen International

Director Karyn Kusama and star Megan Fox seem uncertain if they’re satirising the conventions of teen gore-fests or simply catering to their core audience’s expectations.

Diunx · « **Reply #1 on:** September 11, 2009, 06:58:32 PM »

how is the violence?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2 on:** September 11, 2009, 06:59:28 PM »

Quote from: Hollywood Reporter

An unoriginal and mostly unscary horror-comedy from, surprisingly, the pen of Diablo Cody.

Not really.

Cheebs am crying on keyboard.

Diunx · « **Reply #3 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:00:22 PM »

Where is Cheebs? I haven't see him in a while, or did he just change his avatar?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #4 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:02:24 PM »

He stopped posting after every thread he posted in would result in someone talking about his mom chauffeuring him to Borders and drinking lattes.

Robo · « **Reply #5 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:03:34 PM »

What's the early conssesesus on the NUDITY?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:06:51 PM »

Quote from: RoboJ on September 11, 2009, 07:03:34 PM

What's the early conssesesus on the NUDITY?

Kids in Mind should have their content review up sometime next week.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #7 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:11:03 PM »

Quote from: RoboJ on September 11, 2009, 07:03:34 PM

What's the early conssesesus on the NUDITY?

It was confirmed awhile ago that they cut the only scene Fox was topless in.

Robo · « **Reply #8 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:13:07 PM »

I just wanted to make fun of Great Rumbler's spelling.

drew · « **Reply #9 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:20:00 PM »

surprise of surprises

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #10 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:26:47 PM »

Quote from: RoboJ on September 11, 2009, 07:13:07 PM

I just wanted to make fun of Great Rumbler's spelling.

There. I fixed it, just for you.

BlackMage · « **Reply #11 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:29:17 PM »

sooo... it's better than we thought?

ManaByte · « **Reply #12 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:40:04 PM »

Diablo Cody wrote a shit movie? Do bears shit in the woods?

Robo · « **Reply #13 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:42:37 PM »

Quote from: BlackMage on September 11, 2009, 07:29:17 PM

sooo... it's better than we thought?

BlackMage

twerd · « **Reply #14 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:45:33 PM »

I got more entertainment from this thread title than I would have gotten from the movie.

etiolate · « **Reply #15 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:56:37 PM »

not a surprise

horror and romantic comedies have the highest crap to watchable ratio of all the genres

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16 on:** September 11, 2009, 11:41:14 PM »

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on September 11, 2009, 08:25:10 PM

Better than Juno? Sounds like it.

It does have Megan Fox in it as a sex-crazed demon, whereas Juno did not. Nothing more needs to be said really.

twerd · « **Reply #17 on:** September 12, 2009, 12:07:14 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 11, 2009, 11:41:14 PM

It does have Megan Fox in it as a sex-crazed demon, whereas Juno did not. Nothing more needs to be said really.

I found Ellen Page to be hot, in a girl next door way, whereas I find Megan Fox to be hot in a programmed to be hot way. I didn't really like Juno that much though. Little Miss Sunshine was the best of the Fox Spotlights.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #18 on:** September 12, 2009, 01:33:16 AM »

Sounds like it's better than Juno because after that point, you can't really go anywhere but up

Raban · « **Reply #19 on:** September 12, 2009, 04:16:51 AM »

What a surprise, a shit writer working with one of the shittiest actors in Hollywood in the hands of an equally shit director churns out a shit movie. I'm glad Diablo Cody's dumb ass is following the sparkle and fade route in Hollywood, when she somehow ended up doing guest commentary on the Spaced DVD I thought she was cementing her place in movies as a cult whatever-the-fuck, but thankfully that is not the case.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #20 on:** September 12, 2009, 04:34:22 AM »

She's not down and out yet. She's still pretty "hot" in Hollywood. This might take away some of her clout, but if there's anything Hollywood loves more than a down-and-outer, it's a comeback story.

Raban · « **Reply #21 on:** September 12, 2009, 03:01:24 PM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #22 on:** September 19, 2009, 02:26:03 PM »

Early audience conssesesus:

Meh.

$2.8 million for opening day, that's with 2,700 screen, compared to $6.4 million on opening day for Drag Me To Hell, with 2,500 screens.

Sam Raimi

Diablo Cody

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #23 on:** September 19, 2009, 02:44:29 PM »

Drag Me to Hell was also released in the midst of blockbuster season, as well.

Theaters are a dead zone right now, I'm kind of surprised it didn't pull bigger numbers. Horror usually does pretty well in August and September.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #24 on:** September 19, 2009, 02:49:02 PM »

Why do people even bother seeing dreck like this?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #25 on:** September 19, 2009, 02:55:30 PM »

The same reason teenagers have paid to see bad horror movies through the decades:

Tits + Gore = PROFIT!!!

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #26 on:** September 19, 2009, 03:04:01 PM »

I wish this meant we'll never see Diablo Cody again, but I sincerely doubt it.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #27 on:** September 19, 2009, 03:22:52 PM »

Nah, one under performing horror flick won't destroy her career.

OptimoPeach · « **Reply #28 on:** September 19, 2009, 03:24:59 PM »

Quote from: Cary Darling

It's a fun premise -- a twist on the usual girl-in-distress scenario of the standard-issue horror film -- enlivened by Codyspeak.

Wow

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #29 on:** September 19, 2009, 03:28:56 PM »

Codyspeak? God dammit.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #30 on:** September 19, 2009, 03:29:07 PM »

Quote from: OptimoPeach on September 19, 2009, 03:24:59 PM

Quote from: Cary Darling
It's a fun premise -- a twist on the usual girl-in-distress scenario of the standard-issue horror film -- enlivened by Codyspeak.
Wow

Well that settles that. Not that I was going to bother watching the movie anyway.

Diablo Cody will be around for sometime because she was a stripper who has brains! Go grrl power!

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #31 on:** September 19, 2009, 04:00:00 PM »

No, because he wouldn't have a career.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #32 on:** September 19, 2009, 04:45:07 PM »

Quote from: Willco on September 19, 2009, 02:44:29 PM

Drag Me to Hell was also released in the midst of blockbuster season, as well.

Theaters are a dead zone right now, I'm kind of surprised it didn't pull bigger numbers. Horror usually does pretty well in August and September.

Yep, even Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is only going to pull down about $25 million this weekend, with virtually no other kids movies in sight.

Jennifer's Body looks like it's on track to the be the worst-performing horror movie of 2009 with a major release.

E-DuB · « **Reply #33 on:** September 19, 2009, 05:49:09 PM »

Let's be honest, was anyone expecting this to be a good movie???

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #34 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:00:51 PM »

If Diablo Cody was a dude, nobody would even give a fuck about him and Juno would have never been greenlit, let alone (undeservingly) win several awards.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #35 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:42:56 PM »

Quote from: Borys on September 19, 2009, 06:57:40 PM

Is her first name really Diablo?
Why not Asmodeus or Azazel?
Is she at least hot?

No, it's Brook Busey.
No idea.
No.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #36 on:** September 20, 2009, 09:16:12 AM »

Quote from: Green Man on September 20, 2009, 03:11:57 AM

Glad too see it fucking tanked I hope this means people will stop greelighting her God awful projects. By the way, does anyone really believe Megan Fox can carry an entire film? Hopefully this tank will ruin her too.

It won't. She's got another year or two until they move onto another younger, hotter actress to salivate over.

Raban · « **Reply #37 on:** September 20, 2009, 01:18:36 PM »

EDIT: [Insert stupidity]

Maybe this is all psychotic paranoia, but I felt I had to elaborate on the feelings this movie, and movies like this, evoke in me.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #38 on:** September 20, 2009, 01:45:55 PM »

Quote from: Raban on September 20, 2009, 01:18:36 PM

Maybe this is all psychotic paranoia, but I felt I had to elaborate on the feelings this movie, and movies like this, evoke in me.

This.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #39 on:** September 20, 2009, 01:57:40 PM »

Jennifer's Body is bomba CONFIRMED!

Friday - $2,800,000
Saturday - $2,525,000
Sunday - $1,475,000
Total Weekend - $6,800,000

*Price is Right fail horn*

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Author Topic: Early conssesesus on Jennifer's Body: Mediocre (Read 2238 times)